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WRIGHT & 'KIRBY.

Coal Scuttle.

Patented March 12,1867.

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DA VID WRIGHT- AND. WILLIAM A. KIRBY, OF AUBURN, N EW' YORK.

Letters Patent No. 62,915, dated March 12, 1867. I

nursovsmear IN OOAL-YSGUTTLES.

Be it known that we, DAVID WRIGHT and WILLI AM A. KIRBY, of the city of Auburn, in ,the county oif Cayuga, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Coal-Scuttle; andwe'do hereby declarethat the. following is a full, clear, and exact dscription of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which" I Figure 1 is a side view of the scuttle with the lip closed. Figure 2 is a front view of the scuttle with the lip closed.

Figure 3 is a side view of the scuttle with the lip released at top, and'thc aperture created thereby, open dud the coal being discharged therefrom.

In pouring the-coal from the scuttle, as now constructed, it almost invariably spills o vervthe side thereof, which it is the object of our invention to prevent. In order to accomplish this we make our scuttle of the ordinary form, as shown in the drawings. The under part of'the mouth thereof we make in a separate piece or lip,

- B, which we hinge at the lower 'eud,-'as seen at b, so that the same fits' closely to the parts ofthe scuttle adjacent thereto. Projections are formed at the several corners of saidlip. The lower projections are inserted through the holes I; b, which are formed to receive them in the lower ends of the side pieces d'cl, thus forming a hinge upon which said lip swings outwards and downwards and is returned. These holes are elongated so as to allow said lip to be raised, as is hereinafter described. The upper projections fall into the slot 0 e, and thus the lip is held in place. Side pieces 02 d are attached to the sides of the orifice-which is left in the mouth of the scuttle, and tothese side pieces said lip B is attached in the manner above set forth. A spur, kl, is formed upon or attached toj the centre of the bottom part of said lip B, extending outwards at right angles therefrom. When it is intended to discharge the coal from the scuttle this spur is pressed against'the' side of the grate or other place into which the coal is to-be discharged; then, by-lowering the scuttle, the lip 13 is raised until the projee tions at the upper corners thereof rise above the slots 0 c, and the upper end of said lip being therebyn'eleasod', its own gravity, assisted by the pressure of the coal against it; causes. the upper part of it to swing outwards and downwards, as seen at fig. 3, and thus an aperture is made through which the coal is discharged.

Having thus fully described our improv'ement, its construction, and mode of operation, what we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-- 1. The use of a lip or flap'as a part of the coal-scuttle, and in front thereof, so that the coal -1nay be discharged through an aperture, the bottom of which shall be at a level, sufficiently below that of the upper edge of the scuttle, substantially in the manner described. I

2. The manner ofatfixing the said lip to the"scuttl c, substantially. as above described.

' DAVID WRIGHT,

WM. A. KIRBY.

Witncsses:

F. G. DAY, FRANK WRIGHT. 

